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Earlier this year, Compass Director Annette Cairnduff spoke to SBS Living Black about the Wingara Mura - Bunga Barrabugu Summer Program. If you would like to listen to what she had to say, the audio is available here! More

In good weather and, more often than not, in bad, we have been out promoting Compass’ volunteering opportunities to University of Sydney students and staff at this year’s O-Week (Wednesday 25 to Friday 27 February).
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From January 12 to 16 this year, almost 200 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island high school students attended the University of Sydney's Wingara Mura - Bunga Barrabugu Summer Program. Currently in its second year, the Program is a pre-tertiary engagement intended for Aboriginal teenagers with an eye on a university degree. More

More than 300 students from primary and high schools in Sydney's southwest filled the Great Hall with laughter and applause on Tuesday, as the annual Compass Showcase as the short films and animations they created were screened for the first time. More

Crab crawling to improve students' deskwork posture? Threading shoelaces through cut-outs to improve handwriting? These were just a few of the exercises used by our Occupational Therapy placement students in classrooms around NSW this year. More

Liverpool Girls High School has only been a Compass partner school since 2012, but in that short time they have made our programs integral to the school calendar, participating in more than 30 activities. Head Teacher E-Learning, Ms Katy Lumkin, reflects on the 2014 Term 3 Film Production & Editing program. More

More than 120 participants from all around Australia took part in the University of Sydney's Making Tomorrow Forum on Friday 10 October. The forum brought together high school teachers, careers advisors, school councillors and senior executives who work to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students' educational outcomes. More

This year, more than 1,200 Year 7 students from 12 Compass partner high schools came to explore The University of Sydney to get a head start on planning their lives and imagining their future careers. More

The University of Sydney community came together to support two important causes: Compass and medical research. We are thrilled to report that within just 24 hours we raised $932,964.90 through 1058 donors. More

In preparation for their final exams and making big decisions about the future, more than 40 Year 12 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students took part in the Bunga Barrabugu Winter Program at the University of Sydney in July. More